Kelly Frisbee

If a religious influencer is mocking the women on Lindsay Clancy’s jury, sneering that they “look exactly as expected,” or using them to fantasize about repealing the 19th Amendment, you are not witnessing Christian discernment. You are watching foolishness manufactured for engagement. Repealing the 19th Amendment is not a serious proposal. It is a fantasy ginned up to provoke anger, flatter an audience, and keep people clicking. Worse, these influencers are twisting the jurors’ words to make them appear heartless or depraved. One juror said the holdout could not get past the fact that Lindsay had “viciously killed her children.” Influencers have seized upon that as though the other jurors did not care about Cora, Dawson, and Callan. But whether Lindsay killed them was never in dispute. She admitted that she did. The question before the jury was whether the Commonwealth proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she was criminally responsible when she did it. The foreperson also said she became excited and began completing the three verdict forms when the holdout acknowledged reasonable doubt. Influencers are presenting this as though she were giddy about releasing a child murderer. Listen to the entire statement. After seven days of deliberations, she believed they had finally reached a verdict. Her excitement was plainly connected to completing the forms, before the holdout said he still would not vote not guilty by reason of insanity. You may disagree with these jurors. You may believe the holdout was right. You may argue every piece of evidence. But you may not honestly mock these women’s appearances, tear sentences from their context, invent wicked motives for them, and then call that Christian commentary. This is how your capacity for critical thought is being destroyed. You are not merely a victim of these influencers. You are choosing to surrender your judgment so that you can imitate them, share their contempt, and feel included in their outrage. You are allowing them to corrupt your mind, harden your heart, and endanger your soul. What is being done to these jurors enters the territory of rash judgment, detraction, and calumny. These are not harmless online games. When committed knowingly and with grave harm, they can be mortal sins. Murder and calumny are not equal in gravity, but both can belong to that deadly category because mortal sin kills charity in the soul. Stop letting influencers do your thinking for you. And especially stop letting religious influencers teach you to sin while convincing you that your cruelty is righteousness.